Big Mal

The manner in which some Imams, Ayatollah's and the like translate the Quran in one of the reasons that while I believe in God I don't believe in none in of the so called men of God.

Iran's particularly odious view of the Quran's on adultery is just one point of its denigration of Islam and the arrogance of the Imams, Mullahs and etc.

Whilst it is true that the punishment provided in the Quran for adultery is stoning the Quran requires that the accuser provide the collaborating evidence of 4 witnesses and that a sheet of paper be unable to to divide the two bodies. An impossibility I would say.

Equally whilst it is true that a man may have four wives (the idea of the time was to increase the Muslim faith at a rapid rate) it also states that the man must treat his four wives equally, another impossibility I would think. The taking of more than one wife today is rare indeed.

R0bert, Johnny Rotten,

The bottom line here is not which brand of superstition is worst. It is whether Terry Jones' Church has the right to burn its own property.

Clearly it does.

Whether you or I or Barrack Obama or Muqtedar Khan or a billion plus Muslims approve of this action is irrelevant.

Steven

Sure the book is private property and if it was burned without all the publicity, no problem.

But it is being burnt deliberately with world wide attention to deliberately insult decent Muslim people who constitute the majority of Islam worshippers - none of which will help this world to heal.

Hatred simply foments more hatred.

I have read many of your diatribes on religion - your emphasis is always on Islam, you never cast the same critique over Judaism. In this you are no more objective than Big Mal.

Johnny Rotten

If you had bothered to read the article referenced before sounding off you will see that the more precise definition of violence is political violence.. and the article goes to some length in defining it.

More than I was going to repeat, thinking wrongly, that if someone wants to pick it up and respond they might do the bleeding obvious and look up what was meant by the basic term.

Objectivity indeed

bigmal

Please explain what you mean by "given over to violence" as R0bert politely requested, to which you can also explain what you mean by "political violence".

Given that all the Abrahamic religious texts exhort physical violence, subjugation, bigotry, political manipulation and other methods of controlling people, your claim that the NT does no violence of any variety is quite simply; a blatant lie.

The act of burning a religious text in public is an exhortation for hatred - irrespective of which religious adherent is burning which religious book.

"Metric of merit"? You're kidding, bigmal.

>>Despite the smart arsed retort, it is still a metric of merit ..indicating where the substance of the underlying problem may reside.<<

It's nothing more than a throwaway line, relying upon the credulity of the listener to be sucked in without question.

>>Why dont you take it up with the author of the document I referenced<<

You referenced the document, not I. So I'm "taking it up" with you.

So go on. Justify your position.

If it is no more than quoting some random numbers from a clearly biased source, then fine, come clean and admit it.

Incidentally, as to the "source". Here's an excerpt from the material immediately following the item you referred to.

"SUPPORT PASTOR TERRY JONES, for LIBERTY’S SAKE.

THE FLAME OF FREEDOM SPEAKS!

THE FLAME OF FREEDOM SPEAKS, THE FLAME OF FREEDOM WITHIN EACH HEART.
THE FLAME OF FREEDOM SAITH UNTO ALL: COME APART AND BE A CHOSEN PEOPLE, ELECT UNTO GOD.
MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE CHOSEN THEIR ELECTION WELL, MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE DETERMINED TO CAST THEIR LOT IN WITH THE IMMORTALS.
THESE ARE THEY WHO HAVE SET THEIR TEETH WITH DETERMINATION, WHO HAVE SAID, WE WILL NEVER GIVE UP, WE WILL NEVER TURN BACK, WE WILL NEVER SUBMIT.

IMPEACH PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, OR ELSE THINK MAO, STALIN, HITLER AND MOHAMMED.

ARCH ANGEL MICHAELS WARRIORS OF GOD’S LIGHT, ARISE!

STOP FEARING MUSLIMS REACTIONS, LET THEM FEAR US.

STAND AGAINST THE LUCIFERIAN MEDIA!"

I've left the capital letters exactly as they appear, so that you can get the full flavour.

Nice, isn't it?